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Bron-3
Continued from Chapter 2: Bron-2 | ABCtales Chapter 3 Linda arrived home at six at the small flat, on the corner of Great Cumberland Place and George...
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Bron-2
Continued from Chapter 1: Bron-1 | ABCtales Chapter 2 Bron had been one of Chris’s finds. He’d seen her in a coffee shop on Queensway in Bayswater...
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Bron-1
Chapter 1 She hit the surface of the water, arms and legs spreadeagled, with a crash rather than a splash. “MAM!” she shrieked. The cold hit her like...
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Fade
FADE The light is fading on a February evening in an old industrial city in north-west Europe. The woman’s footsteps ring out as she hurries along...
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The Ride -5 of 5
Continued from Part 4 The Ride-4 | ABCtales Frank finished early again the following evening. He’d promised Lisa the ultimate pub crawl. They got...
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Perhaps it already is. Do you
Posted on Mon, 24 Nov 2025
Perhaps it already is. Do you think they'd tell us if it was?
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That image is fine - couldn't
Posted on Tue, 30 Sep 2025
That image is fine - couldn't have done better myself. Glad to see you got one of the North Anglesey Coast on a relatively calm day - we don't want to be accused of exaggerating, do we?
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The world needs more cat
Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026
The world needs more cat stories. It would be a better place. At least, that's what Lulu and Sasha tell me...
Read full commentPosted in The Cat Krampus Campus (and Moment who couldn't resist not doing nothing)
All credit to him for going
Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2026
All credit to him for going back to his roots in Nigeria; many sports people with his sort of money would choose to spend all their time in their luxury London homes.
You take a chance every time you venture onto an African road.
Read full commentPosted in Oluwafemi Olaseni.
I always say, if you can only
Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026
I always say, if you can only keep one part of your body warm, heat your feet. That was the principle behind the old railway foot-warmers, before the days of proper heating in train carriages. Big cans filled with hot water that you could hire at...
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Biblical
Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2025
"...Priyatelkata and I went there to fetch water in earthenware pots that we carried on our heads, hoping to meet Bob Geldof along the way. Goats grazing at the roadside ran away from us because of the terrible smell..."
It sounds biblical...
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Autumn - my favourite season?
Posted on Thu, 06 Nov 2025
'And soon to go' - You capture the transitoriness of the seasons and life in general so well.
Read full commentPosted in Farewell Glows
Glad to see someone else names their cars
Posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2025
Glad to see someone else names their cars - Fionnuala the Fiat, meet Gertie the VW and Hilda the BMW.
I spent a night and a day in Strabane, just over the border in the late 1980s. It was...interesting.
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Running amok
Posted on Tue, 14 Oct 2025
I too have been accused of Wonton behaviour in the food aisle...
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In the best traditions of Victorian hymnists
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
Written in the best traditions of Victorian hymnists (if that's the right word). Perhaps the style is due for a revival...
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